Dictatorships are never as strong as they think they are, and people are never as weak as they think they are.

There should be no romanticism that international public opinion or even international diplomatic and economic pressure can defeat a coup without determined and strong defense by the attacked society itself

It's a nonsense assumption that you can get rid of terrorism with war. Terrorism is taking the lives of innocent people to gain your objective. War is basically the same thing on a larger scale.

The degree of liberty or tyranny in any government is, it follows, in large degree a reflection of the relative determination of the subjects to be free and their willingness and ability to resist efforts to enslave them.

Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.

By placing confidence in violent means, one has chosen the very type of struggle with which the oppressors nearly always have superiority.

Some foreign states will act against a dictatorship only to gain their own economic, political, or military control over the country.